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...that task," Wehner wrote in his memo. There's also an inconvenient fact that Bush rarely mentions: if workers start investing payroll taxes in individual accounts, the government will need another source to cover benefits for retirees--as much as $2 trillion by some estimates. The options are grim: borrowing heavily, cutting benefits or both. While Bush has not spelled out how he would deal with what are known in bureaucratic jargon as the "transition costs," Wehner and others at the White House have signaled that he is leaning toward a significant reduction in future benefits that gets deeper over...
...determining whether loved ones missing since the waves hit are among the dead. Across Asia, massive numbers of bodies remain unidentified. So while relief agencies descend on the disaster areas to rush aid to survivors, forensic investigators from around the globe are sifting through the deceased, doing the grim work that follows every human catastrophe. In Thailand experts have begun a disaster-victim-identification (DVI) operation of unprecedented scale and complexity, involving more than 300 investigators from 30 countries--many of whom have worked together in the aftermath of wars, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. But even the most seasoned...
...failing to address the dire underlying situation of the world's poor, the world will repeatedly confront the tragic arithmetic of life and death. This is not merely a sound forecast based on the likelihood of future earthquakes, droughts, floods, landslides and epidemic diseases. It also reflects the grim fact that life-and-death disasters of the poor are with us every...
...educating the next generation that does not pay property taxes, we ask ourselves what Cambridge property values would be like if Harvard had never existed at all. In fact, we cannot quite picture what Cambridge would look like had Harvard never been—but it would be a grim picture indeed. The politicians and community leaders who so viciously nip at Harvard’s backside would hardly want to live in that alternate reality. But historical speculation only gets at half of Cambridge’s debt to Harvard. The students, tourists, businesses, science, culture and luminaries that...
...theaters in March 1994—just as State Department officials were honing their foot-dragging techniques so that America could shirk its duty to intervene in Rwanda. No doubt Hotel will generate Oscar buzz. But will it increase ordinary Americans’ awareness of genocide? The outlook is grim. But George and Rusesabagina have a track record of defying all odds...